The Next Best singer, Clones Of Rafi Saheb......! Options

[past21]

Room,
As u all know, Sonu started his Carrier as Copycating Rafi Saheb, like many other Singers(Mahendra Kapoor, Mohd Aziz,Anwar) to name a few........
But according to me if v exclude Kapoor Saheb(as he is the Only "Shagird" of Rafi Saheb, only Sonu fulfill the Requirement to be a Full Fledge Singer and a person 2(Rafi Saheb was a Gem of a singer and Person) leaving every1 far behind(V can only THINK of Anwar, but he is lagging far behind- thanks to his passion for WineS!
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So can v rate sonu as Rafi Saheb's Best Clone or Will there b new ones?
Hope to hear a lot from u all
More to come.............








...Pawan

[balajigade]

Dears;
As an ardent fan (never fanatic) of Rafi and the songs of singers of yester years, I have a few points to add. Let's not start comparing one singer with the other. Every one has an ideal---whether he is a sports personality, an actor or a singer. Gavaskar had Jaisimha as his hero in his younger days, Sachin had Gavaskar and Sehwag has Sachin--maybe they tried to play like their heros intially, but developed their own style. Even the greatest Lata had Noorjehan in her mind intially & Rafi had GM Durrani. When the artists of younger generation perform, they always have their hero in mind and try to compare intially themselves with them, do we call it imitation? Suman had a voice similar to Lata but let me not be harsh on her that she was imitating the legend. Nitin has a voice which slightly resembles the senior Mukesh and Chandru has a very similar voice like that of the senior Atma. Perhaps the fault lies with us that when we hear a song from a junior artist singing a song of Talat, say for example, we try unknowingly to rate him how best he has sung like Talat---because we have already that particular song in mind to compare with. Anwar took a leaf out of Rafi's book when he sang qasme hum apni jaan ki... in 'Mere Gharib Nawaz'----surely Rafi could have sung it better--but let me appreciate how well he sang. Sonu Nigam is a very good singer--the best to my opinion among the male singers of these days. Lekin us bechare ki kya ghalati hai ki us ki awaaz Rafi Sa'ab se kuchh had tak milti julti hai ?

--Balaji